Story

Nono, is a country girl who dreams of becoming a space pilot to become like “Nonoriri”. One day at her work place she encounters an actual space pilot by chance. She gets recruited by the space pilot, Lal’C Mellk Mal and becomes apart of an elite team made up of teenagers by the name of “Topless”. Topless is armed with quasi-humanoid weapons called Buster Machines. The team’s mission is to protect the people of the Solar System from dangerous space monsters.

We are given a ton of vista shots (which is a pain in Gainax to execute) as characters watch beast & their mecha’s roll out and cover the amount of area they consume.

The final scene where Lal’C gazes into the night and looks up to the stars was very pretty. The screen turns to capture each light that blazes to the sky and then they light up the stars as each buster runs off.

-CON’S

There is no chemistry between the characters. Especially Nono and Lal’C.

The meeting of Nono and Lal’C was purely coincidence.

Nono being the chosen one plus being overpowered makes the story cliche.

The story is pretty plain. It’s a mecha team that fight large beast from space. With the side of extra elements.

Tycho’s story is just kind of rushed in. They don’t really elaborate on her character or past but just hand out a bit of hints. This doesn’t work when episode 3 is supposed to be a beautiful and emotional piece about her.

Score:

★ 5/10 ★ I wish I really liked it.

Final Comments:

I really wanted to like Diebusters. It had great animation, directing, cinematography, and an interesting protagonist. But at the end it just couldn’t deliver a good story. The characters beside Nono were bland and uninteresting. Moments where we were supposed to feel for these characters weren’t there. These characters felt familiar but I didn’t know them. And I also felt the characters didn’t truly feel for each other either. There was a lack of chemistry between characters. Especially Nono and Lal’C. The story moved but was not thrilling or interesting for most of the part. The story also said alot but didn’t explain enough. Fights were visually pleasing but they weren’t exactly attention-grabbing. It was just big mecha attacks big monster or big mecha shoots a bunch of missiles at many monsters. Each episode felt like a bunch of time had skipped. It was not consistent. I wish I could really like Diebusters but unfortunately that cannot happen. Diebusters could have really be something.